Research & Publications

In some ways, our country changed on November 8, 2016. The United States elected a leader who, by all measures, is hostile to the basic foundations and principles that we stand for.

Originally published in November 2013, Beyond Zero Tolerance was well-received in Pennsylvania and beyond. We have expanded and updated the report for 2015.

A robust dialogue has risen up about police practices—stop-and-frisk, broken windows, the biased implementation of the War on Drugs—which have led to both unnecessary deaths and, thankfully, to the “social death” of mass incarceration.